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CP-FS Online Review Course

Course Overview:

The Certified Professional–Food Safety (CP-FS) online review course has been developed by industry experts from across the various food safety disciplines to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to help ensure safe food in any retail environment — as a quality assurance or quality control manager, a facility manager, a food-safe chemical supplier, or as a regulatory inspector/investigator.

Who Should Take the Course?

This course is designed to help candidates prepare for the National Environmental Health Association’s CP-FS credential examination.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, participants will know and understand:

Causes and prevention of foodborne illness

HACCP plans and active managerial control

Cleaning and sanitizing

Conducting facility plan reviews

Pest control

Risk-based inspections

Sampling food for laboratory analysis

Food defense

Responding to food emergencies and foodborne illness outbreaks

Legal aspects of food safety

Evaluation Process:

At the end of the course, there is a practice exam that consists of 50 multiple-choice questions pulled from a test battery of 165 questions to help participants confirm their understanding of course content and help prepare for the written exam. Test questions are randomly selected from a test bank, making each test unique. Participants can retake the final test up to three times.

Course Duration:

This online course made up of 40 self-paced lessons. Participants may leave the course at anytime and can resume where they left off. Total course duration depends on individual learning styles and prior knowledge of the subject matter.

About the CP-FS exam

The written exam consists of a total of 120 multiple-choice questions. Candidates are given a total of two (2) hours to complete the written exam. Below is an outline of the eight (8) different content areas the examination covers and the percentages allotted to each of those areas: